Frailty SDEC Nurse

Job Overview

Full-Time Registered Nurse- Frailty SDEC (Same Day Emergency Care)

Working 37.5 hours per week working across 7 days from 08:30-18:30 - 4 days per week

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a passionate and committed Registered Nurse with ideally a background in Emergency care, or SDEC experience to join the Frailty SDEC team on a secondment ending the 31st of March 2026. This full-time role is ideal for a nurse seeking a role which requires flexibility in a fast paced, same day emergency care environment.

The Frailty SDEC service provides a front door assessment working closely with our Emergency Department colleagues. They provide comprehensive geriatric assessments, complex care plans and advise to older adults attending the Emergency Department with a frailty syndrome. The team aim to support admission avoidance, reduce length of stay, and avoid unnecessary re-admissions for individuals living with frailty.

You will work collaboratively with, and be supported by, the Frailty team leads, Consultant Geriatricians, GPs and a team of multidisciplinary frailty practitioners that includes nurses, medics, physiotherapists, and a pharmacist.

Main duties of the job

To work closely with the Frailty team to proactively identify and manage patients with frailty and support them in the development of supportive management plans. Be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of care without supervision. Assist in the monitoring of performance and work of the team in the SDEC and support in the managing of the shift as safely and effectively as possible, highlighting any delays in care or transfers and proactively finding solutions.

To work in conjunction with a wide range of clinical colleagues, specifically primary care and community teams and Social Care professionals, to lead and facilitate a patient focused, co-ordinated case management approach across primary and secondary care for people who are most vulnerable to, and at high risk of repeat admissions to hospital.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Clinical

• To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work, including the management of patients in your care.
• To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management and support non-qualified staff to deliver safe and effective care.
• To maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of care for this group of patients by providing comprehensive assessment; treatment plans and undertaking joint treatment sessions as indicated. Training and support will be provided to achieve this.
• Ensure that the service and care delivery comply with local and national quality standards eg CQC.
• Responsible for the assessment of patient care need, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision.
• To participate and assist in systematic monitoring and evaluation of nursing practice.
• To participate and assist in setting standards of patient care based on sound evidence-based findings, implementing these into practice.
• Ensure that the nursing practices of the area comply with the Trust’s Nursing policies and procedures and maintain high standards of nursing practice.
• To always comply with the NMC Code of Conduct.
• Communicate effectively and liaise with all health care staff as appropriate.
• To encourage and maintain good relationship with Medical Staff and other members of the Primary care & Social Services teams to provide the best care.
• To support the implementation and maintenance of Team Nursing within the clinical area, taking responsibility for a caseload of patients. Within this system of case management, co-ordinate and monitor the progress of patients along their clinical pathway, reporting any variance from the pathway. Take named responsibility for co-ordinating individual patient discharge.
• To participate in Quality Assurance initiatives within the unit, implementing action because of these initiatives.
• Consolidate and extend own clinical skills in all aspects of nursing, furthering own professional knowledge in a rapidly changing environment.
• To ensure that all issues relating to the implementation of clinical governance are addressed on the unit. This includes maintaining and reviewing the standards of care on a regular basis, implementing changes to improve the service where necessary following complaints, ensuring systems are in place to manage all risk and to regulate professional practice. All staff must be made aware of their own individual responsibilities as regards clinical governance.
• Where issues of clinical competence are identified, inform the Clinical in Charge on shift.
• Pro-actively respond to potential complaints, to prevent formal complaints from occurring.
• Refer to appropriate clinical services within the trust or community to ensure patient safety is maintained. 
  
  

Non-clinical

• To decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands.
• This is an outline job description, which may be subject to change in consultation with the post holder. This job Description is not inflexible. The duties of the post holder will be reviewed on an annual basis (or more frequently, as required) and the employee may be called upon to work within other locations within the Trust.
• The post holder must also perform any other duties as reasonably requested by the Clinician in Charge of the shift.
• The post holder will be subject to performance appraisal to develop his/her own objectives.
• The post holder is expected to promote and implement the Trust’s equal opportunities policy.
• The post holder is responsible for the management of risk in all the areas for which s/he is responsible. S/he is also responsible for ensuring compliance with the Trust’s Health and Safety Policy. The post holder must ensure that duties are carried out in accordance with health and safety regulations. The post holder should not endanger the health and safety of him/herself or others whilst at work.
  
  

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered General Nurse
• Current NMC registration
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Teaching certificate, SLIP, mentorship preparation for healthcare
  
  

Exoerience

Essential criteria

• Experience in caring for a variety of acute medical conditions
• previous experience triaging emergency and acute medical patients
• Experience in older people medicine
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Emergency care or SDEC experience preferred, but not essential
  
  

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• awareness of current professional nursing issues
• Ability to manage change within the working environment
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult/stressful situations
• Ability to train and supervise junior staff
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Ability to manage same day emergency care
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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